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Witness History Episodes

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    Canada’s first UFO landing pad

    In 1967, the town of St Paul built Canada's first alien UFO landing pad

  2. Spain's La Tomatina

    In 1945, a spat between teenage boys was the seed for the world's largest tomato fight

  3. India’s first female bartender

    The story of the woman who became known as India’s first female bartender

  4. Argentina's five presidents in two weeks

    In 2001, Argentina went through a remarkable political crisis

  5. Nazis in Egypt

    Egypt recruited thousands of Nazis after World War Two

  6. The celebrity murder case that divided France

    French actress Marie Trintignant was killed by the rock star Bertrand Cantat in 2003.

  7. Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings

    'Spray-on skin' was used to treat burns victims after bombings on the Indonesian island.

  8. How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'

    One of the world’s most wanted men had been on the run for decades.

  9. Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence

    In 1945, the nationalist leader declared independence for Indonesia

  10. The last ever Olympic art competition

    From 1912 until 1948, you could win medals in art at the Olympic Games

  11. Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba

    The Brazilian singer who earned the title Queen of Samba

  12. The first televised US presidential debate

    In 1956, US presidential candidates sent female representatives to the first debate on TV

  13. President Richard Nixon resigns

    In 1974, Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign

  14. Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority

    In 1979, the Moral Majority was launched and changed the course of US politics

  15. Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court

    The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the most contested in history

  16. The Situation Room photograph

    The story behind the Situation Room photograph during the raid to kill Bin Laden in 2011

  17. Ice Bucket Challenge

    The ice bucket challenge became a worldwide phenomenon in 2014

  18. The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia

    The students who challenged the discrimination of Australia's indigenous people

  19. Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears

    In 1998, it became illegal to make bears dance in Bulgaria

  20. Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar

    How Yazidis in Iraq fled to Mount Sinjar to escape genocide in August 2014

  21. The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall

    How punk rock band Die Toten Hosen secretly played a concert in East Berlin.

  22. The first cold chain vaccination storage system

    In 1974, Ghana pioneered a new system, to help immunise against serious diseases

  23. Building the Moscow Metro

    How the Moscow Metro was built using more than 10,000 Russian workers.

  24. Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012

    Somali sprinter Zamzam Farah at the London 2012 Olympics

  25. The first Olympic ‘mascot’

    The creation of Shuss for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France

  26. The 1924 Paris Olympics

    The last time Paris held the Olympic Games was 100 years ago in 1924

  27. How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital

    In the 1990s, Ayia Napa, in Cyprus, went from quiet fishing village to party resort

  28. The missing people of Cyprus

    Between 1963 and 1974, more than 2,000 people in Cyprus went missing

  29. Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line

    In April 2003, people in Cyprus crossed the ceasefire line for the first time in 29 years

  30. Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing

    In July 1974, Captain Adamos Marneros landed the last flight at Nicosia Airport in Cyprus

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